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CHARLES K. BRADFRD, 0F LYNNFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 69,395, dated October 1, 1867, i

IMPROVBD LASTINGrAWL.

TO' ALL WHOM IT MAY OONCERN:

Be it known that I, CHARLES K. BRADFORD, of Iiynnfeld, in the county of Essex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an improved Lasting-Aufl; and I dovhereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this speciication, is a description of my invention suiricient to enable those skilled in the art to practise it. l

The invention relates to the construction of a hand-awl or a. combined awl and needle, to be used in lasting boots and shoes, and the invention consists in combining with a handle or stock an eye-pointed awl, the eye being so arranged that in pressing the point of the awl through the stock, the thread run through the eye of the needle will be carried through the stock, to be then caught by another thread, or to be interlooped by a new loop of the same thread, similarly passed through the stock by the awl. It further consists in combining with such an awl a. spool-containing stock or handle, through an eye in which the thread runs freely to the eye of the awl.

The drawings represent an instrument embodying the invention, A showing the tool in elevation; 13,8. central section through the same; C and D represent a method of lasting by means of this awl.

v a denotes a wooden stock or handle; b, an awl xe'd therein, this awl having a curved point, c, in which is an eye, d, through which extends a thread, e, as seen at A and B. Y

- Now it will readily be seen that by pushing the point of the awl through the stock, or through two pieces to be united, the thread will be carried through with said point in the form of a loop, and this loop may be swung over any projecting point or tongue, or may be caught with another thread, or may be passed through the stock and back again by the awl, and a loop made upon the same side from which the awl entered, into which loop the awl and thread may be passed in taking a new stitch, thereby making a regular tambourstitch, Instead v of running off the thread from aloose spool, I provide in the handle a a chamber,f, for containing the threadspool g, the thread runningnfrom the spool through a guiding-eye h to the outer surface of the handle, and thence through an eye, z', to the awl-eye, as seen at A and B. This box or chamber is closed by a cover, k, and the awl so made enables the instrument (having the source. of supply of the thread to the awl-point arranged within the same) to b`c readilyl operated by hand with great facility.

One method of lasting by means of this instrument is shown at C and D. The inner sole Z has punched or cut partly from it a series of tongues or projections, m. The sole so prepared being placed upon the last, the upper, n, is drawn over the same, as seen at D. The awl-point and its thread are then pressed through the upper, and the thread, carried through, is drawn over the adjacent tongue 'down towards the base or fixed end of the same, as seen at D, and the awl is then drawn back, and the point of the awl carried forward to a. point` opposite to the next tongue, when the upper is again pierced, the thread is again looped over the adjacent tongue, and the awl is again withdrawn and passed forward to a point opposite the next tongue, thus securing the upper and sole together all around the sole, as seen at D. The tongues may then be cemented back into the sole. This preparation of the sole may be-dispcnscd with, however, :1s the curved point of the needle `may be passed through both the upper` end inner sole at one point, and out again at another, and the protruding loop he held by a hook or other suitable device until the awl is drawn back, and the awl-point is next carried forward through this loop, being then again pressed throughand out of the upper and inner sole,`making another loopv for the next entrance of the awl and thread, this method securing the upper and inner sole together by a series of long chain stitches. It will be obvious that the insti-nement muy besimilarly used for analogous purposes, or in securing two pieces of stock together.

I claim combining with the stock or handle a an eye-pointed awl, b, substantially as shown and described.A

Also in combination with such stock and eye-pointed awl the spool-chamber within the handle, substantially as set forth.

CHAS. K. BRADFORD.

Witnesses:

J. B. Caesar, FRANcIs GoULD. 

